<div dir="ltr">Why do you need an SMTP server? You need an SMTP client talking to whichever SMTP server your hosting provider provides you.<div>e.g. <a href="https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer">https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer</a> (I only remember it because of a security flaw published about it last week, but it's PHP so... meh.) <div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 January 2017 at 07:34, Steve Litt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com" target="_blank">slitt@troubleshooters.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span>On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 14:45:58 +0100<br>
Tzafrir Cohen <<a href="mailto:tzafrir@cohens.org.il" target="_blank">tzafrir@cohens.org.il</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 02:44:00PM +0200, David Suna wrote:<br>
> > I have an Ubuntu machine that I am using to develop PHP based web<br>
> > application. I now need to configure it so that PHP can send out<br>
> > mail. The default seems to be to install sendmail. However, I have<br>
> > seen comments that sendmail is overkill and some references to<br>
> > ssmtp.<br>
><br>
> The main difference is that ssmtp and nullmailer (and other similar<br>
> "sendmails") don't queue. This greatly simplifies them.<br>
><br>
> ><br>
> > What would be the recommended way to configure this? Sendmail,<br>
> > ssmtp or something else?<br>
><br>
> I tried using ssmtp for some servers. It lacked too many basic<br>
> features. Nullmailer came closer. I don't recall the specific issues<br>
> now, though. But I ended up using either postfix. Or even exim4 in<br>
> some cases where I didn't bother.<br>
<br>
</span>Nullmailer queues. It doesn't perform some other SMTP functionalities,<br>
but it queues. You can see it happen by ls'ing the queue directory<br>
while sending a bunch of email with it.<br>
<br>
I've never been able to have Nullmailer deliver messages to my local<br>
machine, probably because I just don't know how.<br>
<br>
SteveT<br>
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